Manpage for Pound:
CONFIGURATION FILE
Each line in the file is considered a complete configuration
directive.
The directives are case-insensitive. Empty lines or lines
starting in
###7m<80><99>####7m<80><99> are ignored. There are three
types of directives: global directives
(they affect the settings for the entire program
instance), listener
directives (they define which requests Pound will listen
for), and ser-
vice directives (they affect only a specific group of requests).
That's a hell of a comment delimiter.
Not many of my lines are likely to begin with
###7m<80><99>####7m<80><99>